UPDATE ON PEOPLE’S MOVEMENTS
KSRTC and BMTC Employees Struck Work Demanding Better Wages BMTC and KSRTC employees went on a state-wide strike on 5th August demanding a payment of arrears for a period of...
What Does the Karnataka State Education Policy Promise?
On August 8th, the principal features of the Karnataka State Education Policy were presented to the public through a press note. It states that the committee was formed in October,...
‘Singara’ Chennai and the Battle for Livelihood
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win. - (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) On July 31st, around 2,000...
Reflections on Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp
Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’ is a collection of twelve short stories in English translated by Deepa Bhasthi from a mix of languages common to Malnad. Her recent awarding of the...
Justice Undone: Malegaon Blast Case Judgement
When bombs tore through the crowded lanes of Malegaon in 2008, killing six people and injuring over a hundred, it was assumed to be another in a series of Islamist...
Quantum Capital: The Politics of Innovation and Exploitation in Karnataka’s Q-City Plan
Karnataka government has announced a thousand crore investment in setting up a Q-city near Bangalore. This announcement has been made by the Science and Technology Minister, N S Boseraju during...
Buried Truth of Dharmasthala
On July 3rd Karnataka was shaken by a chilling confession. A former Dalit sanitation worker from Dharmasthala revealed that, under coercion, he had buried scores of bodies over the years...
78 Years of Unfulfilled Promise
The tryst with destiny that India began at the stroke of the midnight hour of 15th August, 1947, was the product of a long period of struggle, compounded with a...
Stop the War on Adivasis
Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural resources are being exploited by a handful...
Keezhadi: The Buried Truth
There's no such thing as the 'voiceless.' There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. - Arundhati Roy For decades, the instilled memory of Indian history has been...